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all kinds, as well as a fine region for bush buck, while on the wide grassy- 

 flats and the lower slopes of the hills are great flocks of sheep and 

 goats, herded by the natives. 



GOVERNMENT BREEDING FARM NEAR NAIVASHA. 



At the government breeding farm, a few miles from Lake Naivasha, 

 efforts are being made to cross the zebra with the horse or mule, in 

 order to produce a hybrid which may both resist the diseases of the 

 country and at the same time be easily tamed and be valuable as a beast 

 of burden. This attempt to solve the horse problem in British East 

 Africa has not met with as much success as the government's efforts to 

 improve the native hairy sheep and the humped African ox. The former 

 has been so crossed with Sussex and Australian blood as to be trans- 

 formed into a very respectable wool-bearing animal, while the native 

 hump is disappearing, and the mixed ox is coming on the scene as a 

 fair Shorthorn. 



NAKURU AND ITS CHARMING LAKE. 



Salty though it is to the taste, as are most of the bodies of water in 

 this region. Lake Nakuru is charming both in the vegetable and animal 

 life which it supports. A rich grass country surrounds it, which, as 

 stated, is thickly settled by Boer farmers. Beyond, along the Mau Es- 

 carpment, is one of the finest pieces of railroad engineering in East 

 Africa, consisting of nearly three miles of viaducts, or twenty-seven 

 separate iron bridges spanning beautiful valleys and foaming torrents. 

 The really interesting part of the great engineering feat lies in the fact 

 that it is really an American achievement — a demonstration of Amer- 

 ican ingenuity, pluck and technical skill. 



FROM FORT TERNAN TO PORT FLORENCE. 



At the station called Fort Ternan the railroad has fairly cut through 

 the Mau Escarpment, and thence to Port Florence, or Kisumu (the 

 native village), carries one through a swampy but fertile country — the 

 approach to Lake Victoria Nyanza and the region infested by the tsetse 

 fly and devastated by the Sleeping Sickness; the country of the Nandi 

 and the Kavirondo. Fort Ternan, which has been dubbed a "placeless 



